Fountain-pen attachment



Dec. 4 1923, 1,476,582

J. M. BEADLES I FOUNTAIN PEN ATTACHMENT Filed May 24, 1923 g jf fww Patented Dec. 4, 1923.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. IBEADLES, 01 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

FOUNTAIN-PEN ATTACHMENT.

Application filed May 24,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Join; M. BEADLES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fountain-Pen Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates toattachments for fountain pens and other writing instruments, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive and practicable device that may be readily combined with the cap. or sleeve portion of a fountain pen or other writing instrument, and which device is designed to hold a plurality of stacked postage stamps, or the like. I

An object is to provide a device that may be readily applied to standard or conventional forms of fountain pen caps or sleeves practically without material change of construction of the same.

An importantobject is to provide a'stamp magazine including a member adapted to be telescoped into the usual fountain pen cap or sleeve and to telescope over the fountain pen and its spoon when the cap is applied and when the magazine is in closed position in the cap. Another. object is to provide a magazine into which a stack of stamps can be readily inserted and withdrawn one at a time. Another object is to provide means for preventing the rotative dislodgment of the stacked stamps from the magazine filling and extracting aperture. Another object is to provide a means for preventing the total removal of the magazine from the cap or sleeve to which it is attached.

Other objects and advantages will be made manifest in the following specification of an embodiment of the invention illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the fountain pen cap or sleeve and the combined invention, the cap being broken away to show the closed magazine. 7

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal, central section of the cap or sleeve applied to the fountain pen and showing the magazine extended to permit insertion and removal of stamps.

Fig. 3 is a perspective of a fragment of the fountain pen sleeve showing the magazine extended.

Fig. 4 is a perspective of a stack of stamps 1923. Serial No. 641,204. v

bowed preparatory to insertion into the magazine.

Fig. 5'is a cross sectional view showing the stack of stamps inserted in the magazine.

Fig. 6 is a cross sectional view of the'magazine showing the method of withdrawing a single stamp.

Fountain ens and other" writing instru ments inclu e the usual tube or shell 2, and in the case of fountain ens, the reduced end of the shell, the pen and the s oon S,

are ordinarily encased in a removab e sleeve I or cap 3, frictionally held or screwed as at 4 onto the body or shell 2-.

My present, invention consists of a device adapted to be readily applied to the usual cap 3, and is designed to carry for convenient access a number of postage stamps 5,

or the like, which are shown in superposed or stacked relation andbowed, in Figure 4.

The device comprises, essentially, an exterlor magazlne barrel 6, having at one side a mouth 6 of suflicient length to receive the stack of stamps 5; one side of the mouth 6 being slightly widened as at 6 to facilitate the application of a finger in withdrawing the stamps. A feature of the invention is to provide a stamp holding magazine which may be telescoped into the fountain pen cap 3 and telescoped over the pen P without danger of the stamps being mutilated or soiled. Therefore, the device includes a hollow core or mandrel 7, concentric with the barrel 6 and therefore forming a substantially annular chamber C between the barrel and the mandrel, and which has a length slightly greater than the length of the stamps and a circumferential length sufiicient to receive the stack of stamps inserted through the open-, ing 6 and in which the stack will moreor less concentrically conform to the magazine chamber. i

. The magazine is provided at its outer end with a head or closure 8, from which the barrel and mandrel extend concentrically, and the opposite end of the magazine is provided with a wall 9 closing the magazine chambers C.

The magazine is adapted to be applied as to a fountain pen cap 3, and in the present out of the magazine 6. To prevent the encase I provide what is substantially a liner %t is desirable to prevent the stamps from shifting circumferentially around the mandrel 7 1n the magazine and therefore I proa vide a stop means to limit the shiftin movement of the stamps circumferentia y, and this stop means I also 've the further function of providing a c earance space in the azine into which the stop lug 11 extends ii serves not only to prevent entire withdrawal, but also to prevent relative rota-t tion ofthe magazine as to the cap 3. r

The stamp stopping means and the lug guidewa are shown as in the form of longitudina ly extending, slightly spaced walls 12, which extend from the mandrel? outwardly to and join the barrel 6 of the magazine, which is provided with a longitudinal slot 13, alon the walls 12, and into which slot the stop ug 11 extends. It will be seen that the walls 12 form, therefore, means for preventing the stps from shifting around the mandrel, and also form means engaging the lug 11 to prevent-rotation of the magazine while the lu by engaging al 9,

- the inner end portion as t e end w scope down over the The magazine opening 6. may'have any prevents the magazine from being pulled entirely out of the cap.

The ob'ect of providing. a hollow mandrel'withln the magazine is to enable the magazine being telescoped inside of the sleeve and down and around the pen P and the spoon S of the fountain pen without engaging the same, and thus providing an extreme y compact structure in which a cap of usual length may be utilized for its primary purpose. of enclosing the pen and spoon, and at the same time form a receiver or pocket into which may be telescoped the stamp holding magazine, which has a capacity, as l have actually demonstrated of ten stamps without requiring any enlargement or lengthening of the pen cap, and furthermore, being adapted to telepen and its spoon.

desired width, and for convemence of removing stamps it has a laterally widened portion 6* to enable the sufficient application of finger surface, as in Figure 6, to the stamp to be pulled from the magazine.

It will be seen from the above that the magazine canbe readily adapted for combination with usual or standard fountain intense pen sleeves or caps prtically without variations may be resorted to within the principle of the invention.

What is claimed is:

1 1. An attachment for fountain pens and I other instruments, comprising a stamp magazine adapted to sli into the fountain pen sleeve or cap an to telescope over and around the fountain pen and its spoon, said magazine being longitudinally slotted to receive stacked stamps.

2. An attachmenttor fountain pens and other instruments, comprising a magazine adapted to slip into. the fountain pen sleeve or cap and to telescope over and around the fountain pen and its spoon whereby the cap, the magazine and the fountain pen and its spoon occupy relatively concentrlc positions i when nested, said magazine having an mner core and an outer slotted wall, the magazine being formed of inner and outer concentric tubes forming therebetween a stamp chamber, the outer tube having an elongated slot through which the stamps are inserted and removed when the magazine is pulled from the usual cap. a

3. An attachment for fountain pens and other instruments, comprising a magazine adapted to slip into the fountain pen sleeve or cap and to telescope over and around the fountain pen and its spoon, and means for preventing the entire dislodgment of the magazine from the cap when the magazine is extended to permit withdrawal of stamps from its chamber. A

4. A stamp magazine adapted for attachment to a fountain pen sleeve or cap of usual construction, and which magazine has a central chamber to telescopically receive the pen and spoon of the fountain pen when the magazine is run into the applied ca the magazine having a stamp chamber su stantially of cylindrical form and which chamber too Hill

has a lateral mouth into which stamps may is pulled outwardly from the'cap and being closed when pushed into the cap.

5. A stamp magazine adapted for attachment to the usual cap or sleeve of a fountain pen, said magazine including a substantially annular, longitudinally extending chamber with a lateral mouth through which stamps are inserted and removed, said magazine including concentric cylinders in the outer of which said mouth is formed,'said magazine being bodily shiftable in the usual cap to cover and uncover the mouth.

6. A stamp ma azine ada ted for attach-.

ment to the usua cap or s eeve of a fountain pen, said magazine including a substantially annular, longitudinally extendin chamber with a lateral mouth through whic stamps are inserted and removed, the magazine including a hollow mandrel-like portion adapted'to telescope over, without engaging, the usual fountain pen and spoon when the ma azine is telescoped in the cap, the magazine ein attachable to the usual cap and to be shifte therein to cover and un.- cover the said mouth.

7. A stamp magazine adapted for attachment to the usua cap or s eeve of a fountain pen, said magazine including a substan tially annular, longitudinally extending chamber with a lateral mouth through which stamps are inserted and removed, and means in the magazine chamber for preventing circumferential shifting of the stamps out of position from the magazine mouth.

8. A stamp magazine adapted for attach- .ment to the usual cap or sleeve of a fountain pen, said magazine including a substantially annular, lon itudinally extending chamber with a laterfi mouth through which stamps are inserted and removed, and means in t e ma azine chamber for preventing circumferentlal shifting of the stamps out of position from the magazine mouth, said means including longitudinal, s aced walls arranged diametrically opposite t e mouth of the magazine.

9. A stamp ma azine ada ted for attachment to the usua cap or s cave of a fountain pen, said magazine including asubstantially annular, lon itudinally extendin chamber with a lateral mouth through whic stamps are inserted and removed, means in the magazine chamber for prevent ng C11- cumferential shifting of the stamps out of position from the magazine mouth, said means including longitudinal, spaced walls arranged diametrically opposite the mouth of the magazine, and means fixedly provided on the cap and operating between the said walls to prevent entire withdrawal of the ma azine from the cap. Y

n testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification. JOHN M. BEADLES, 

